President Obama to Announce a New 'College Promise' Campaign

September 9, 2015
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The movements for free community college and other tuition- and debt-free college programs will get a renewed push on Wednesday when President Obama returns to Macomb Community College, in Michigan — along with Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and a longtime community-college professor — to announce a wide-ranging new effort called the College Promise campaign.

Notably, with many observers now questioning whether Mr. Obama has the political support to get his own free-community-college proposal enacted before he leaves office, the new campaign will promote not only the administration’s America’s College Promise but also a variety of state and local efforts.

Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/president-obama-to-announce-a-new-college-promise-campaign/104269